The End is Near (and we deserve it) . . . The Twinkie is Dead

After two bankruptcy filings and a bitter strike, Hostess Brands, Inc. is liquidating. I don’t know about you, but as soon as I post this blog, I’m heading out to buy up all the Twinkies for my Apocalypse Survival kit. Dear God, what’s next? Spam?

Air New Zealand is ever clever with this Middle Earth Airline Briefing. Just in case you can’t bear to wait for The Hobbit to come out. How fun is this?

Holmes and I are featured bloggers at the SocialIN Network. Today I’d like to welcome our newest SocialIN bloggers, International Best Selling Author Vicki Hinze who is posting in Writing–Live!, and the 21st Century Erma Bombeck, Paige Kellerman is posting in Family Humor.

Wendy Williams did her part to Save the Twinkie when she hosted opera singer Hai-Ting Chinn, who sings us all of the ingredients we can find in a Twinkie. No wonder the cockroaches will be feeding off of these for thousands of years after the human race is gone. Via my hometown friend, Bob Farkas.

And yes, they taste that way to me now too, but I figured it was just my taste buds changing over the years. I didn’t go out hunting them down today, unlike seemingly every other person on Twitter, so I guess I’d decided I could live without them. LOL!

I think the recipe is very different now. Same with Hershey bars and Coke, except the good Cokes from Mexico with real sugar instead of corn syrup. Anyway, good thing you can live without them because they are so gone.

Surely, the company that buys the Twinkie brand would continue making them! Hello, built it customer base getting ready for the end of world! Ding Dongs were my favorite when I was a kid. I haven’t had one in years….I may never have another one! So sad.

Did you hear that list of ingredients? Just thinking about them made my teeth ache. I haven’t actually had a Twinkie or other Hostess product in years because of it, but tell me something’s going away, and I want it. 🙂

I’ve never been a big Twinkies fan, but if Spam were to go off the shelves, I think my world would end. That Hobbit flight safety video is one of the best things I have seen in ages. Now I’m even more excited about the new film. 😛

I’m actually going to the store today in hopes of finding some Hostess goodies to take home. My husband loves Twinkies, DingDongs, and the whole nine yards, and he’s going to be REALLY upset when word of this gets to him.

I was completely panicked thinking that Hostess made those Swiss Cake Rolls that got me through high school lunches. I quickly looked it up and breathed a sigh of relief at seeing that it was Little Debbie. My Swiss Cake Rolls are safe…for now…until that conspiracy gets a hold of them.

Karen West pointed out to me on Facebook that Little Debbie is probably behind the whole thing. When you put the legalization of pot with the disappearance of Twinkies, it makes sense since Little Debbie has the most to gain. 🙂

Yep, Julie. Little Debbie will now carry the snack-time burden mostly alone. Also, Moon Pies.
I was never a fan of Twinkies, but loved the orange cupcakes and was mad for the crumb cakes. Thank goodness Duncan Hines still lives!

There is something fundamentally wrong with our nation when the company that brought us Twinkies, Ho-Ho’s, Zingers, Ding-Dongs, and goo-filled-cupcakes with swirly icing goes into bankruptcy.

[Please assure ‘Holmes’ this was a non-partisan observation.]

I intentionally left out the Sno Balls. Why? Because when my red-head-for-a-reason granddaughter was about two, and in a constant state of “one ‘no’ away from a tantrum”, I took her to the store, offered to let her pick a treat when we passed the Hostess section. She picked pink Sno Balls.

“Clean up in aisle one. Clean up in aisle three. Clean up in aisle five.”